# James Ojascastro

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Podcast: [Paper Talk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/paper-talk-1377227)
Published: 2025-04-24T14:45:38+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paper-talk-helen-hiebert/episodes/James-Ojascastro-e31v1fe
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## Resource

James Ojascastro is an origamist, papermaker, and botanist, with a Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Washington University in St. Louis in collaboration with the Missouri BotanicalGarden. Ojascastro employs a combination of methods – including fiber trait measurements, experimental papermaking, species distribution modeling, andsemistructured interviews – to explore the history, biogeography, and conservation of papermaking traditions (especially of Nepal and Vietnam) through a botanical lens. Outside of academia, Ojascastro uses his researchbackground to guide and inform what plants and which processes will yield paper suitable for origami art.

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